Man On A Street

[Note: This was first published as a Facebook Note on January 29, 2016 . I am making it available here to add to the Inkscape pattern tutorials.] This is based on a tutorial for making hexagonal tiles for David White’s “The Battle for Wesnoth”, but you can skip the 72×72-pixel requirement. You can make your base hexagon in any size that looks good at 100% zoom. First, make a hexagon using the “Create stars and polygons” tool. Press the CTRL key while you’re dragging the cursor to make a proportioned hexagon like this: You may have to move the cursor around to have the hexagon lie on its side. Next, with the hexagon selected, remove the outline by holding SHIFT and left-clicking the ‘X’ swatch in the color palette: Replace the hexagon’s color with what you want by left-clicking the color swatches in the color palette – almost black, in this case: Next, add your main decoration. I just dropped-in a dragon I found at Wikimedia Commons: Group the hexagon and the object (selec...

[Note: This was first published as a Facebook Note on January 3, 2016. I'm making it available here to add to the Inkscape pattern tutorials collection. Here's Part 2 and Part 1 .] I must have been bitten by the pattern bug because I’m at it again (and it took more than a year for me to make a second post on repeating Chinese patterns and here I am, days later, with a third). I’ve been wanting to try, for some time now, to make a repeating tile for this lattice pattern from the set of The Legend of Zhen Huan (aka Empresses in the Palace). (Thanks to My Drama Tea for the screen capture) It’s a very distinct styling for the Palace of Broken Jade (where earlier scenes of the story took place – gorgeous, gorgeous costumes, by the way). Broken, shattered, ... very appropriate. There appears to be no repeating tile pattern to it. I just found out, a few days ago (while making Part 2 ), that this Chinese lattice style is called a Type II “ ice-ray ” (click here for more ty...